I have lost again but not enough to get me to my first target!

Yes I have lost 2lb tonight but I needed 3lb to get me to my 3 stone loss. Ah well should do it next week. I did come home with 2 certificates - 1 for slimmer of the month for August (11 1/2lb) and slimmer of the week with my 2lb loss. Like last week lots of people has gained or stayed the same.

I am pretty sure that I will loose the 1lb next week because I have got a colonic booked for tomorrow.

I had a hygienists appointment today - teeth good: gums bad - as always . She said my teeth cleaning was good but that I really should floss much more to improve my gums - I know this but I am always so tired at bedtime that i don't do it. The dentist said it does not matter when in the day I do it - midday even - just do it - so note to myself - FLOSS, FLOSS and FLOSS. Whilst I was waiting in reception I was reading a magazine called Fresh - about food and cooking etc. and I found a fab recipe for baked sweet potatoe. When I left I tried to buy the mag but it was last months so I picked up any nice mag and went back to the dentist and asked if I could have the Fresh mag in exchange for this new one. They laughed and said I could have it. I made this lovely lunch out of it



It is baked sweet potatoe with a nice salsa - peppers, onion and tomatoes and I did a sweet corn in the oven at the same time in foil. - That did not work though as I did not put any water in the foil and the sweet corn dried right out

Jess passed her exams!

Great news today - Jessica heard that she has passed her resits, so she can go back to uni next week! 
What a relief - though she said that she has settled back into Shrewsbury now and does not want to go back to Norwich - she is going to be homesick again. A lot of her friends who went to Chester Uni last year have decided to live at home and travel each day and of course Emily is still here so she half wanted to fail her exams so she could stay here with her friends!

The deadline was getting rather tight as she has to go in to Queens building (at UEA) next Friday so get her programme etc. so I am taking her back on Thursday - thankfully I have a day off that day so can take her, but have to travel back the same day - eugh.

Got my weigh in tonight - I really do not know what to expect this week -
I hardly ate at all at the start of the week because I did 4 extremely busy nights and did not get a break on any of those shifts. Since then I have eaten 
well - though kept to 
the plan. Except yesterday we went into town and because dad
& Jess were starving we stoppedin at Subway - so I had a wrap
as well - lots of salad & veg but also the sweet onion sauce & meat! 

For tea I had steamed salmon steak, new potatoes and peas and
 3 meringue nests andloads of strawberries. 
Oh well we will just have to see what the scales say tonight -
if I can loose 3lb I will have got to my 3 stone loss - which will be fab.  
Keep your fingers crossed.


HSMS prompt yesterday was 'cakes' which was really lucky because I did loads of baking yesterday - scones and coconut cakes - they won't last long in this house though. I was very good - none for me and I did not even lick the spoon!

power ball - exercise desperation

I lost another 1lb on Monday!

I was really chuffed to have lost another 1lb this week = making a grand total of 2 stone 11lb now. I am 3 or 3.5lb away from my 3 stone award so I am being very good to see if I can get it next week. I am not holding my breath though as my bowels have come to a complete standstill again - I can't understand it as I am eating so much fruit and veg - one would think they would go the other way.


Here is a photograph of me taken today - do I look any slimmer? I think I do. I do look a little different as I have had my hair cut today - needs washing to get to how I really like it. I don't like photos of myself but i do need to keep a record of the changes in me.




I have been naughty again and treated myself to a new MP3 player which came yesterday. It is a Creative Vision M - 60Gb!


It was quite cheap on Amazon so I naughtily bought it because my other ones are full - they are just 6 & 4 Gb and I cannot put any more music on them and to be truthful - neither of them are particularly user friendly. Eleanor and Liam have one of these - just the 30Gb version and have found it reliable and easy to use. I synced all my music and photos on yesterday but have ended up with lots of photos that i don't really want on - they were just on my laptop as a back up - so have a bit of editing to do.

Ross is home at the moment - off sick from work with a really nasty throat abscess - it was dire to look at and he was quite ill. The Dr has given him a huge dose of Penicillin and he was to return if it had not improved after 48 hours and would be admitted to hospital for IV antibiotics - thankfully he seems better today so I think we can avoid that.

Red day today

I am having a red day today as I really want to loose one lb on Monday night and I think I loose more on red days than green - plus I can't stand pasta!. I only have 4 days between weigh in's this week because of the bank holiday so the pressure is on!

For lunch I had chicken kebabs - they were very tasty and quick & easy to make. Will definitely do them again.

1 chicken breast - cut into bite shaped pieces.
Cherry tomatoes - whole
yellow pepper- chopped
1 red onion - quartered

Add to skewer and then I sprinkled them with a couple of squirts of Fry Light and some Jamaican Jerk seasoning which added just the right amount of kick.

here they are before they went under the grill:-



and here after they were cooked and ready to eat! I just love grilled cherry toms and eating food with your fingers makes a nice change.



For pudding I had this sugar free jelly and 2 kiwi fruits - again delicious.



Think I might have prawns and jacket potato for tea- using the potatoes as a healthy extra b.
My breakfast was the usual, all bran, skimmed milk and a whole grapefruit. I still  cannot believe than I can eat so much with Slimming World and still lose weight - Ithink that's why I have not cheated once in 13 weeks.

my slide show below

Well it has taken me all day - it is 3.30pm now- just to get this slide show on my blogg!! first I had to take photos of each page, then edit them in photoshop elements which took ages, then upload them to photobucket - this took forever and thenit  decided to be stupid and not take any more uploads. Then go to slide.com which again took ages and would not find the photos I needed and could not find them on PSE so had to take them again!!

Anyway its on here now and I am very pleased with it.

Check out my Slide Show!